[OS X Emacs] Re: NSEmacs: copying and pasting long lines without the backslash

Lloyd Zusman ljz at asfast.com
Sat Nov 1 22:05:18 EDT 2008


Lloyd Zusman <ljz <at> asfast.com> writes:

> 
> I'm using "NSEmacs" under Mac OS 10.5. This is emacs version 23.0.60.1
> 
> I want to be able to type long lines in emacs and then select them
> in a such way so that when I copy and paste them into a different
> application, each long line gets copied as is, without being split
> and without the backslash character at the end of each of the split
> lines.
> 
> [ ... ]

I just now found the answer: I just need to invoke the function
`ns-copy-including-secondary'. It copies the marked region into the
Mac's paste buffer. This function is part of the underlying NeXTStep
(GNUStep) code that's used within NSEmacs.


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz at asfast.com
 God bless you.







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